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using System.IO;

namespace AbstractClass.Extensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Contains extension methods for <see cref="Stream"/>.
    /// </summary>
    public static class StreamExtensions
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Converts a <see cref="Stream"/> to a <see cref="byte"/> array.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="stream">The stream to convert to byte array.</param>
        /// <returns>A <see cref="byte"/> array equivalent to the <paramref name="stream"/>.</returns>
        public static byte[] ToByteArray(this Stream stream)
        {
            using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
            {
                var buffer = new byte[1024];
                int bytes;
                while ((bytes = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
                {
                    ms.Write(buffer, 0, bytes);
                }
                byte[] output = ms.ToArray();
                return output;
            }
        }
    }
}